To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

"Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing."

To subdue; to take control of.

To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.

To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.

No longer maintained by its former owners, residents or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

Free from constraint; uninhibited.

No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.